InfraBeacon

The InfraBeacon server agent installs in under a minute on most Linux servers with bash and curl.

Prerequisites

• A Linux server (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, etc.)

• Root or sudo access

• curl installed

• Outbound HTTPS access to api.infrabeacon.io

Installation steps

• Go to your Account page in InfraBeacon

• Scroll to the Server Monitoring section and click Add server

• Enter a unique host name, such as web-server-1 or db-prod

• Add a display label if you want one

• Copy the install command shown. It includes your token and host

The installer process

• Creates a config file at /etc/ib-agent.conf

• Downloads the agent script to /usr/local/bin/ib-agent

• Sets up a cron job to run the agent every minute

• Optionally creates a dedicated ib-agent user

Running as a dedicated user

By default, the installer asks you to choose between:

• ib-agent (recommended) - Creates a system user with no login shell

• root - Runs as root

You can also set the user with this flag:

--user ib-agent

Verifying installation

After installation, you should see data in your dashboard within a couple of minutes. You can also check:

# View recent log entries
tail /var/log/ib-agent.log

# Check the cron job
cat /etc/cron.d/ib-agent

# Run the agent manually
sudo /usr/local/bin/ib-agent